Teilhard
\tɛ.jaʁ\
The verdict
“Teilhard” is uncommon French (frequency #60,424 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,424
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-teilhard · Teilhard · French
Teilhard · rank #60,424 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,424
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tej
Nearest frequency peer: tej (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Teilhard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tarquin
tarquin
39,580 corpus weight
- taxons
taxons
39,579 corpus weight
- Teilhard
Teilhard
39,577 corpus weight
- tej
tej
39,576 corpus weight
- telling
telling
39,575 corpus weight
- teri
teri
39,574 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Teilhard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Teilhard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tɛ.jaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Teilhard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Teilhard is uncommon French at frequency #60,424 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tɛ.jaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Teilhard, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Teilhard, spelled T-E-I-L-H-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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